Kleeman, Alexandra
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1986- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Fairy Tale" in The Paris Review for Winter 2010; this was assembled with other tales that variously explore the water margins of Fantastika as Intimations (coll 2016). Her first novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine: A Novel (2015), Satirizes the modern all-absorptive Media Landscape through the attempts of its protagonist, identified only by the letter A, to become essentially indistinguishable from the fungible versions of herself on display. Kleeman is of greater sf interest for her second novel, Something New Under the Sun (2021), which is set in a Dystopian Near Future California and centres on the experiences of an East-Coast novelist new to the Hollywood Cinema industry. Under a cloud of threatening Climate Change (with wildfires within the city limits), and an upsurge of cases of dementia at Pandemic levels, every instance of the future pressing against the world makes Disaster both more inevitable and more routine. The writer finds the surreal corruption that infects production of a film from one of his books uncannily interwoven with an infestation of manufactured water into an Ecology already doomed. [JC]
Alexandra Kleeman
born Berkeley, California: 26 February 1986
works
- You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine: A Novel (New York: HarperCollins, 2015) [hb/]
- Something New Under the Sun (New York: Hogarth, 2021) [hb/]
collections and stories
- Intimations (New York: Harper, 2016) [coll: hb/]
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